Now that my hollow core door benchwork is now essentially complete, I have started playing around with everything that goes on top. 

Today I was able to get into the shop to work on the benchwork.  Since the hollow core doors are 80 inches tall and I only have 10 feet of space available, I needed to trim them down to size.  Now I could have just left one door alone and trimmed the second one to fit, but I would also like to be able to take the layout to shows.  By cutting both doors down to 5 feet, they will also fit in the back of my truck.

It's been about 8 years since I had to dismantle my last layout, a casualty of getting married and combining two households into one. While that layout had its own room, it never got past the plywood prairie stage.  It also grew organically - a product of "how many industries can I fit into this space?"  Not surprisingly, it didn't get run very often. There was no staging so the layout was always full, making an attempt at an operating session more tedious than enjoyable.